Course Instructor

  • Curtis Phills, PhD
  • Office: 51/3429
  • Email: curtis.phills@unf.edu
  • Office Hours: T/R noon to 3 pm
  • Course Website: Canvas

Expectations

  • Class begins and ends on time
  • Listen to each other with respect and trust
  • Invest in your own learning
  • Participate actively in your learning

Today you will have the opportunity to:

  • Identify some of the tools psychologists use to conduct research and communicate findings
  • Define what you want to learn

Agenda

  • Class structure
  • Tool 1: Analysis tools
  • Tool 2: Writing tools
  • What do you want to learn?

Class Format

  • Each class will usually consist of:
    • lecture
    • discussion
    • group/individual work
    • maybe a video

Course Textbook

Goals of this course

  • At the end of this course you will be able to:
    • Define your research question
    • Create a professional CV
    • Learn recent developments in Psychology

Assignments

  • 125 possible points
  • CV (25 points)
  • Research Proposal (50 points)
  • Webpage (25 points)
  • Presentation (25 points)
  • Must complete the research proposal
  • 75 points needed to pass. Plan your time accordingly

R (Analysis Tool 1)

According to r4stats:

RStudio

  • We won't work directly with the R GUI. Instead, we will work with R Studio.
  • RStudio provides many, many helpful functions and features
    • These slides were created with RStudio!
    • You can write papers that conform to APA style with RStudio
    • You can make pretty graphs with RStudio
    • You can make shareable output with RStudio
  • But why do any of these things with RStudio?

Reproducible Science

  • Replication: Using new data, can you replicate a previous finding?
  • Reproducibility: Using the same data, can you get the same results?
  • What are some reasons for reproducibility errors?

Statcheck (Analysis Tool 2)

The GRIM Test

Papaja (Writing Tool 1)

  • https://github.com/crsh/papaja
  • Works with RStudio to create APA style consistent manuscripts
  • Never make a reproducibility mistake again!
    • Put your analysis script right in the manuscript!
    • Put the code to create your graphs, right in the manuscript
    • Never mess around with headers and footers again
    • Automatically create reference pages that update as you make changes

Zotero (Writing Tool 2)

  • https://www.zotero.org
  • A reference manager
  • Other options include mendeley or endnotes or refworks
  • We will use zotero for this course because it integrates with RStudio and is free

Grammarly (Writing Tool 3)

  • https://www.grammarly.com
  • Check spelling and basic grammer
    • Excellent at catching passive voice
    • Let's you know when you're being too wordy
    • Not perfect but useful. It's like a fresh set of eyes.
  • I use it for all my writing

2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  • https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/Login.do
  • https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12599/nsf12599.htm
  • 3 years of support at approximately $42 000 per year
  • The Personal Statement, Previous Research Experience, and Proposed Plan of Research essays each have a maximum length of two pages, including all references, citations, charts, figures, images, and lists of publications and presentations.
  • Due last of week of October
  • We will work on these essays as part of this class. You decide whether you want to submit

What do you want to learn?

  • What do you want to learn?
  • How are you going to learn it?
  • What do you think will happen?
  • What are your objectives (optional)

Next week

  • Meet in library
    • (I won't be here)
  • Submit elevator pitch assignment
  • Check Canvas for updates